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Or 12256
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- 032-003366787
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- Format:
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- Or 12256
- Title:
- Maimonides' Mishneh torah (fragments)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 57 folios (ii+57+iii)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12256 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Hebrew
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 1300-1399
- Era:
- CE
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Or 12256
Maimonides' Mishneh torah (fragments)
Contents
Fragments from Maimonides' Mishneh torah.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-57vTitle: משנה תורה (קטעים)Title: Mishneh Torah (ḳeṭaʻim)Fols. 1r-8v: Sefer Neziḳin, Hilkhot rotseaḥ u-shemirat nefesh 4:9-11:11.
Fols. 9r-27v: Sefer Ḳinyan, Hilkhot mekhirah 16:6-30:7.
Fols. 27v-44v: Sefer Ḳinyan, Hilkhot zekhiyah u-matanah 1:1-12:17.
Fols. 44v-55v: Sefer Ḳinyan, Hilkhot shekhenim 1:1-12:2.
Fols. 56r-: Sefer Ḳinyan, Hilkhot sheluḥin ṿe-shutafin 2:4-9, and 7:3-8:1.
Incomplete at the beginning and at the end; lacunae, e.g. after fols. 55, 56.
Originally bound with [BL] Or 9957.
Physical Description
Paper codex of the 14th century.Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Oriental paperExtent: 57 folios (ii+57+iii)Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 150 mm.Dimensions (written): 170 × 125 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals.
Previous foliation in pencil shows that the leaves used to be bound in a different order (fol. 55 used to be fol. 1).
Another previous foliation in ink shows that numerous leaves are missing from the beginning.
Collation
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Catchword on every page.
Condition
Leaves are very damaged (avoid touching media), have been conserved, but tissue hinders text.
Usage stains.
Water damage.
Layout
Columns:1
Uniform layout. Section headings are often written in larger characters.
Even left margins.
A few marginal notes.
Given dimensions of leaves are approximate since none of the leaves is whole.
Hand(s)
Yemenite square script of the 14th century.
Binding
BL in-house.
Spine: 'Mishnēh thōrāh Fragments Hebrew British Library Oriental MS. 12256.'
History
Origin: 1300-1399 14th century Yemen?Provenance and Acquisition
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 1070: inscribed with his name on fol. 55r; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; 24 October 1931.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12256 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
BL